Former President Donald Trump described President Joe Biden’s actions at the border as “nonsense” as his supporters cheered in the scorching heat at a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday.
‘Last week, Crooked Joe signed an executive order that’s pro-invasion, pro-child trafficking, pro-women trafficking, pro-human trafficking… it’s a pro-trafficking bill. drug traffickers. It is weak, it is ineffective, what he signed is nonsense. Trump said after taking the stage.
His fans cheered and repeatedly shouted ‘nonsense!’
The Southwest is currently facing a scorching heat wave, but the Trump campaign said it was taking precautions as thousands of people turned out despite the extreme weather.
Temperatures were over 90 degrees as lines formed. The forecast for the day called for temperatures above 100 degrees.
Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives on stage to speak during a campaign rally in Sunset Park.
Trump commented on the heat during the rally.
‘By the way, it’s 110 but it doesn’t seem like that to me, does it?’ he said. “So we’re going to stay here for a while… If someone falls, if you start going down, we have people that will pick you up right away,” he said.
It was Trump’s first visit to the state since he was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal the payment of money to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
But those who actually attended the event rejected the guilty verdict, arguing that it would actually benefit Trump.
“I think it’s great because it’s a boost for him. Everyone notices his nonsense,” said Dianne Blair, a 68-year-old retiree and Trump supporter from Henderson, outside Las Vegas.
“I swing with it 10 times harder than before,” said Zach Hammond, 30, of Las Vegas.
The event was part of the Republican presidential hopeful’s three-day Western tour that included a campaign stop in Arizona, fundraising events in California and a rally in the battleground state.
The Trump campaign told DailyMail.com it raised approximately $33 million over the weekend.
Nevada is one of the biggest battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election. Biden won it in 2020 by fewer than 34,000 votes. But the pandemic and persistent inflation have taken their toll.
Nevada’s Senate race in the 2022 midterm elections was one of the closest in the country, and Nevadans elected a Republican governor that year.
A series of recent polls in the Silver State have Trump in the lead. The Fox News poll from early June puts Trump five points ahead, at 45 percent, to Biden’s 40 percent among registered voters.
Trump’s visit comes as he seeks to draw minority voters, including Latinos, away from Biden.
On Sunday, his campaign announced the launch of ‘Latin Americans for Trump.’ The campaign called it a coalition of notable Latinos from communities across the country.
Sylvia Ruiz, who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, made the five-hour drive from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas for her first Trump rally.
“He sacrificed a lot for us,” Ruiz said, highlighting Trump’s legal problems.
Ahead of Trump’s visit to the state, the Democratic National Committee posted signs in English and Spanish focused on the former president’s economic record.
“When Donald Trump returns to Nevada this weekend for the first time as a convicted felon, voters will remember that this felon abandoned Nevada workers when he was president,” Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Stephanie Justice said in a statement. .
She accused him of implementing a “tax scam” that benefited the ultra-rich and corporations.
‘Now, he’s promising tax relief to his billionaire donors instead of putting the interests of Nevada workers first. “Nevada voters know Trump is too corrupt and unfit to serve, and they will reject him again in 2024,” he continued.
